howitzer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
howitzer (plural howitzers)
- A cannon that combines certain characteristics of guns and mortars. The howitzer delivers projectiles with medium velocities, either by low or high trajectories.
- Normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers; however, the tube length can exceed 30 calibers and still be considered a howitzer when the high angle fire zoning solution permits range overlap between charges
- (sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.
- 2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more.
Translations
a cannon
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a slightly different cannon
shot in sports
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References
- ^ “howitzer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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